At a recent talk, President Vladimir Putin defended Christian values and criticized the secularization of Europe, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

We have been able to see many Euro-Atlantic countries effectively embark on a path of renouncing their roots, including Christian values, which underlie Western civilization, he said. Policies are pursued that put large families and same-sex partnerships in the same category, belief in God and belief in Satan.

Excesses of political correctness reach the point where there are serious discussions on the registration of parties that have propaganda of pedophilia as their objective, he continued. People in many European countries are ashamed and afraid of speaking about their religion, holidays are abolished or given other names, names that shyly conceal the nature of those holidays, and aggressive attempts are made to force this model on the rest of the world.

This is a direct path to degradation and primitiveness, to deep demographic and moral crises, he added. What can be a better indication of a moral crisis in human society than its loss of the ability for self-reproduction?

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I knew I’d lived too long when I learned my country was led by a Marxist Communist Muslim and Russia was led by a Christian. But, after all, Russia is the inheritor of the Byzantine Empire and Putin could now become Emperor Constantine XII. (and I’m not so sure that’s sarcasm)

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posted on 09/24/2013 4:24:24 AM PDT
by DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)

Putin has murdered more people than the average jihadi or atheist lunatic could DREAM of killing. That he is able to con people even at FR into believing he is a “Christian” is testimony to his KGB training in disinformation.

Hmmm... Putin is laying down his political vision with which he will embark on another run for presidency. Now that the Western Europe is economically and spiritually heading down to the bottom, he wants to claim the champion of new Christian civilization. The Rebirth of quest for the Third Rome encompassing the whole Europe and more.

Back in the ancient times, Western Roman Empire withered away and Eastrn Roman Empire expanded and prospered. Putin wants the same dream,this time his domain stretches all the way to Vladivostok.

This is his vision. It is another thing if Putin or Russia will be able to deliver the result

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posted on 09/24/2013 4:49:54 AM PDT
by TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)

I’ve been wondering the same thing. Putin is a cynical guy who will do or say whatever is expedient. It’s hard to believe that this Russian KGB thug is suddenly a Christian. Although I welcome his words to the Europeans - but this is definitely Bizarro World. I read - here probably - that he is doing this Christian schtick to help unify Russia and promote the birth rate...but there must be more to it than that. In any case, it’s refreshing to hear these words coming out of a world leader’s mouth.

Of course it is. I never imagined I would have any respect or admiration for a Russian leader. I hid under my desk at school because the Soviets were going to be launching missles at me. I lived through the Cold War and had no love for the Russians. That is how far we have fallen - I now trust a Russian president much more than an American president. Pretty sick.

Putin speaking up on behalf of Christianity, and leading a fight for cultural preservation and self-survival... while America continues to devolve and decay into a suicidal sewer of degeneracy, exemplified by one-party statism to trillion-dollar deficits to homo marriage and a depraved culture of mind-boggling putridness.

That’s right - the guy who ordered polonium be squirted into a man’s tea - who poisoned & disfigured a political rival- and who has Russian journalists shot — is the perfect guy to lecture anyone about Christian values

Putin will say and do what he thinks is in Russia’s best interest. Who would expect otherwise? He apparently sees Christian and family values as the best pragmatic chance to halt the extinction of ethnic Russians, even if he does not hold those beliefs himself. Regardless of his motives, it is quite an improvement over the old Soviet Union.

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posted on 09/24/2013 11:55:09 AM PDT
by TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)

Indeed, Americans can and know what is right and to fix it, we do not need outside help, however we have a lot of idiots who are empowered to stop Americans from fixing themselves. This is a terrorism problem we need to wake to. Just as there were Saudis on 911, now, under Obama, surprize surprize, many of the terrorists are American muslims...

I look at Putin and think what a disgraceful piece of ghetto trash we have sitting in the White House.

Actually the current pResident of the White House is not exactly 'ghetto trash'. He was raised in an affluent environment, and went to a 'rich' High School in Hawaii. Affirmative Action pushed this underachiever along, and he was able to create a persona and schtick along the way that enabled him to win repeated elections (that, and voter fraud by his handlers also probably helped a lot). I'd call him a con man foisted on us by the God hating Media, but not 'ghetto trash'.

People don’t like their long held views challenged, no matter how weak or irrational. The MSM has shaped every American’s perspectives and views, no matter how they deny it. Where do we get our news? Therefore: Russian leader = Communist, fascism (however it’s defined) = bad, gummint helping the poor = good, and other similar simplification.

The figure of Putin, whoever he might be now or has been (and sorry, but no one here is presenting any knowledge about the man outside the usual superficial crap from the MSM, and no knowledge of how the Russian system of government works, everyone assuming that it is a dictatorship or that it is structured and works, or is supposed to work, like the US government) is challenging these silly brain orthodoxies. I only know that we don’t know. We don’t know enough, so spare me parroting these lines you’ve heard from MSM, ape!

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